Let's GO INSIDE two historic buildings in downtown Reno, Nevada that were once major casinos!
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2024
- Rooms frozen in time! Join us as we tour the old buildings and some of their abandoned spaces that used to house the Money Tree and the Horseshoe Club casinos in downtown Reno! The owners of both buildings have been kind enough to show us what is left from the old casino days of these two venerable downtown structures, dating from the 1950's and 1960's.
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This is the place to learn interesting things about Reno, the state of Nevada and the American west! I've lived in Reno for 38 years (as an adult!). I've had a lifelong interest in history and spend much time exploring and researching this wonderful area. I started this channel to share some of what I've learned. I produced a full-length documentary film on the history of Reno's Harolds Club casino in 2015. Perhaps you're thinking of moving to Reno and are looking for background on the area, or you're already a resident and this content might help give you a sense of place. I shall endeavor to cater to both groups! I'm also a craft beer enthusiast, and thought I'd talk about some of that scene here as well. I started homebrewing in 1992, and earned the Certified Cicerone designation in 2015 - this is a sommelier-like program for beer people. Please subscribe, share and come along with me on this journey!
Thanks and cheers!
Steve
I so much miss old Reno.
Me too today's reno SUCKS
A great memory of Eddies Fabulous 50s, the staff was dressed appropriately like the dance contest in the movie Grease. They actually played “The Hand Jive” throughout the casino and all the employees were doing the dance. It was a great time, fun to see the people in that place having fun. Kinda breaking from the Casino floor tradition.
Good video. I like secret places, tunnels, rooftops, catwalks, crawlspaces, basements and alleyways.
Groovy - thanx for watching - I'll see what else I can get!
@@SteveTRYK The old gym up at UNR needs to be explored.
Yes the Mapes was a landmark for sure. When I was a kid my parents loved going into Eddie's Fabulous 50's. We had t-shirts, decks of cards, all kinds of branded swag
Eddie's was cool - not sure what prompted its demise...
Steve another great episode. Seeing the inside of The Horseshoe again after 30yrs was a trip. The new owner seemed a little more excited about showing off the place than you were seeing the old building. I hope he and the Moneytree, The Knitting Factory, The Brewhouse owner find success with these buildings that will home thier businesses and keep some of old Reno alive and well. I miss how my hometown use to be. Seeing these old snapshots of when this town was so different brings tears to my eyes. Thanks again Steve.
Great comments - thanks!
Your videos are great. I love how genuine they are and how you can tell you put a lot of effort into telling Reno’s rich history.
I appreciate that!
What a fascinating tour behind the old scenes!
Great video and awesome content. I came across your channel a few weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised this wasn’t a realtor channel like most other Reno content creators. I was born in Reno in 81 and have never left. All of this is very fascinating please keep up the good work. I look forward to every video you drop.
I appreciate that you watch and enjoy - this channel is for folks like you - cheers!
Another cool video. I haven’t lived in Reno since 1994 so it was kinda going back to the days I lived there. Interesting to see how they just left things there and hasn’t changed in 30 years.
Thanks - that surveillance room was a trip!
Great to see behind the facades. Appreciate the owners and current operators for letting you in! A great challenge to re-purpose some of those places. Hopefully through them and others, new energy will help revitalize downtown Reno. Thanks for the story Steve!
Thanks for the comments Greg!
If the buildings were in Vegas they would be long gone. We all know of all the casinos that are gone in Vegas, the list is very long.
Thank you for making this effort and taking the time for this video. Most of us would not get a chance to see some “behind the scenes” places. Very cool, Steve!
Cheers Tobysan! So cool that you're watching!
Loved this video… I lived in Reno in the early 1980’s - I worked at Harrah’s. I remember the day when the Mapes/Money Tree closed. Unfortunately it was right before Christmas. Some benefactors stepped up and raised money to pay the employees.
Enjoyed the tour and behind the scenes. BTW the old roulette chips at Horseshoe do have a value with chip collectors. They can fetch $5-10 each.
Love your videos… keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching! It was so cool that those chips were still there!
Enjoy your videos. I was a cocktail waitress briefly at the old Horshoe in 1972. Also at Harold's Club for a longer period of time in the same era. Reno was a happening place then.
Nice!
Very cool video, really enjoyed seeing they are trying to keep some of the old casino vibes going!!
Glad you enjoyed!
I'm still heartbroken about the mapes they tore down such a historical landmark for reno to basically put a homeless park you don't want to be around at night people laying around doing drugs and nothing but trouble absolutely DISGUSTING almost as bad as turning harrahs into apartments reno will never be the same as it was when I was a kid. Homeless, druggies panhandling downtown it's n wonder there's no tourist as there once was I don't even go downtown anymore it's sad
The Mapes was a trap house
@@CapoLady There was no such thing back then. Man society has brain washed you .
Loved the Mapes.
It was awesome that you were allowed to see all that abandoned history. I hope you have plans for more videos like this!
If I can get access, I certainly will!
Dude, that was super kool, really awesome to see the old change boxs and roulette chips laying around. Not to mention the old cat walks with the guy talking about Surveillance up there with there binoculars, just like walking in a time capsule. I worked at the Horseshoe for a very short time as a Craps Dealer in the late 80s. I remember the owner yelling at me to keep my eyes on the dice when I was the stick man. Lol
If the walls of some of these old Reno Casino buildings could talk!
Keep up the good works!
Thanks for your viewership!
Thank you. That was fun. I hope more Reno owners see your channel and open more buildings for show and tell. I went to UNR in the late 70s/early 80s and is a blast to see these old places. Good luck!
Thaks for watching - show and tell - I'll use that!
Thanks for the tour
You bet!
absolutely festinating. i love historic architecture. thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dude !!! That was Bad Ass
Thanks - I appreciate it!
I've seen many shows at the Brewhouse, Including bands from the UK and India. Great venue. Thanks for the inside look.
I saw my favorite band of the modern area there twice - Volbeat! Cheers!
great walk throughs, keep exploring and posting.
We shall! Thanks!
Great informative vid. Enjoyed this, thx. Yes, Too many wonderful old buildings go the way of the wrecking ball…only to leave us with a parking lot. Surely we as a community can do better than that. Cheers.
We don't need any more parking lots! Actually, maybe we do... but not at the expense of historic buildings!
Thanks for the explanation. I used to take business trips there but was too busy to pay attention
Great video ...was in Reno last week and loved it but wish i could have experienced it back in the day when the DT was hopping with clubs and more casinos that were open ....Fascinating that most the old buildings still exists . hopefully they can be brought back to life again in some other form ...Would be cool to see a lot of the old neon restored or brought back in LED form to Jazz up DT more at night .....
I kept expecting a door to slam by itself or some other jump scare! Such interesting tours!
It is Halloween season... Thanks!
Amazing Tour, Thanks Steve!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Amazing video! thank you so much for this! Grateful for all your content and gems you dig up!
I appreciate that! Cheers!
Todd doesn’t know his building lease from leasing the building… definitely owns the business! 😂
VERY cool!
Thanx!
Great video. Are you related to Neil Cobb, the Reno historian ? 😊
Neal is a friend of mine - no further relation! ;-) See Neal in my "Skeleton Lady of Reno" video.
OK.. Thanks , Steve ! There is almost a resemblance, but.. not really ! Thank you, and for keeping the history of our region accurate ☺ I'm at the old Flanigan building on 4th Forever Yours Furniture
_Recently subscribed to your really interesting channel. My parents retired to Reno in the late 70s, and my Father knew Charlie Mapes personally(they were both Shriners together). I lived in the Biggest Little City from early 1982 to late 1987, and still remember the fun times I had in this Northern Nevada town. (I was also lucky enough to work as a banquet waiter for a few parties held in the Sky Room, right before it closed). Sad the building wasn't saved as a historical landmark._
Thanks for watching!
That's the Reno I used to know. I bet I know some of the people in the pictures in the surveillance room. Haven't lived in Reno since 1999. I grew up there.
Thanks for watching and I hope it wasn't me! ;-)
Truly excellent video dude. I’m glad you’re getting more opportunities to do these exclusive access type of looks.
Thanks - hoping to get more!
Oh my goodness I was going to shows at the knitting factory when I was 14 years old
Gotta love an all-ages venue!
I think maybe you should do a video on the old onslow Tower and the river boat they connect!
Cool!
Very good. Thanks😮
Thanx for watching!
The old, closed casinos downtown are now museums! The surveillance rooms with the original equipment. That's amazing. I wonder how long those old buildings will stay that way. I don't go downtown anymore. Kind of scary at present.
I was not expecting the coolness of that surveillance room!
nice work !
Thanks!
i was a member of the people who tried to save the Mapes. i still hate that we lost that one. So cool to see inside these two other casinos -- i'm surprised so much of it is unchanged -- that 3rd floor with the boilers and stuff in the Money Tree is INSANE. Also, i want that cigarette machine! haha. Great video as always!
There's probably still stale cigarettes in there! Thanks!
@@SteveTRYK probably! blargh -- i just want the machine, haha.
I used to go in there for $5 prime rib all the time,
The Skate park downtown adds something good to Reno but definitely is not a good place to walk at night. Also, shout out to Scott on the camera but I want to see more of what they are looking at, the subject is in the frame perfectly but I can't stop wondering what they were looking at in the coin room! Loved the video, Cheers !!
Thanks for the feedback!
I'm with you...when you drink anything from Sierra Nevada BC. Cool video, especially when the current tenants know of, and honor, the history of the space they occupy.
Cheers!
Hell YES~!
I remember the Money Tree back in 1969 - 1972.
Great video! This could have been split into two videos, though.
That was considered but I thought it best to keep the theme together. Thanks!
The real action the Money tree property ever saw was when it was Eddies Fabulous Fifties it was packed the first year lots of great fifties music action and fun ! I worked there from the first day to its last Where the Good times rolled in Reno , "I worked the "Drive in bar " upstairs at Eddies when Clint Eastwood was filming Pink Cadillac and they made the bar their graveyard HQ for the production
Eddie's was pretty cool for it's short life! Cheers!
Thanks for the videos, too bad some of the old casinos were changed so much . Hey how about a video on interesting things found in the renovations and demolition ? If not too dangerous?
Interesting!
Question ? Have you did a story on the old Liberty Belle Steak house
I haven't yet - don't know if there's enough source material but it a possibility!
They should have at least kept some of that classic art deco friezework from the top of the Mapes and incorporated it into something downtown, or have it stretch across interstate 80 where that CVS drugstore sits over the freeway. Or SOMETHING. For me that was the old hotel's best feature and worth saving, even if the rest of it could only ever be a ruin.
There is a token display of it on West St. in downtown - but you're right - something more significant would have been appropriate!
@@SteveTRYK At least we still have the old post office building right across the river 😁
Can you do a video on the old motels on E 4th st 🙏
Very Cool video 💥
Interesting!
My Mother&Cousin Gladys-Used To Play-The Slots!@THE HORSESHOE CASINO!-Their Favorite Games!-Raymond "Mike" Hong!&(I Was-With Them!-I Was-5 Years Old-Mike!)😎👍!!!!!!!!!
Cool!
After 40 years, recently left Reno. It's a dumpster fire, expensive, crime ridden, corrupt, crowded.
Very cool. Too bad you didn't have more lighting for those dark spaces.
We were running and gunning and didn't have a way to plan ahead really. Thanks!
I bit sad to see these beautiful historic buildings downtown all boarded up and not being used. Would be incredible to see a revival of downtown. The Harrah's project seems to be at a complete stand still. The little Nugget sits locked up. I hope this owner of the Horseshoe building follows through with his plans on making it a useful space for everyone to enjoy again. We need more of that down there as well as a clean up of transients and loiterers to make tourists feel safer while visiting. As of right now, most locals don't spend time downtown unless there is an event and tourist stay in the casinos that make up The Row since you never have to actually walk on Virginia and avoid the bad elements.
I also hope for a revitalized downtown!
BOILER ROOM,ABOUT AN OLD MAN,WHO USE TO RUN THE CASINO,STILL HAUNTS GUEST,MISSING PATRONS,LOST,ENTANGLED, IMPRISONED,,SET LOCATION, I want to be in it.😅
A movie pitch - I like it!
@@SteveTRYK LOCATION AND LOGISTICS ARE PERFECT FOR PRODUCTION COMPANIES 👌
Reno sure changed after the indian casinos came in,among other changes
I noticed that old boiler lines are still wrapped with Asbestos..
I know because my dad was a Steam Boiler engineer in San Francisco and in the Navy.
This is on my part is fact. My dad has Asbestosis..but i spent many years visiting at his job..
Im fine though..
Just an observation...
I saw that, too. Disintegrating asbestos is really nasty.
Interesting - probably good that they just leave that stuff alone up there!
In 1985 the 2nd floor coffee shop at the Horseshoe was the morning "mustering" spot for the Reno elevator technicians. Until... I was sitting next to one of the guys and as he was eating his pancakes, I looked over and noticed a brown spot where he had cut off a piece to eat. I pointed it out and at closer examination it was revealed to be the half of the cockroach he had not eaten....
Yikes!
Destroying mapes was one of the worst decisions the city ever made. It completely destroyed the fabric of downtown Reno.
Worked for Harrah's in the 80's and loved old Reno. The family started going there in the 60's It was so beautiful to go down Virginia st in those days. Such a crime to see what local officials have done to Reno. The Mapes hotel casino was a monumental example of Art Deco architecture and should have been preserved. I've heard many reasons for its destruction...all bullshit. It's sickening to see what's happened to old Reno
I agree that the downtown core needs better planning.
The band gets ready? What gets consumed down there?
I've taken the oath! ;-)
The Mapes was not demolished (exploded) on a Super Bowl Sunday
Tell you a quick story i worked downtown for years. Sundowner to Sands, Comstock, Fitzgeralds. I recently was working for El Dorado. I called the health department on our restaurants because they are not storing meat properly and cockroaches have gotten so bad they run around in daytime.
They fired me last week. Don't eat at Brew Brothers. Lastrada, Roxy's... All roach infested. Even the employee restaurant has roaches and fruit flys so bad you can't eat your salad without being swarmed. They are literally running the place into the ground.
Thank you for the tour of the west side Virginian street casinos! Have always wondered what what lurked inside. After viewing this video, I am convinced that these buildings need to go. Aside from the Whitney Peak, the rest of the buildings are truly eyesores. I would be embarrassed to admit I was the owner of the Money Tree located on the corner of Second and Sierra streets. A more hideous looking building doesn't exist. They look bad from the outside and from the video, things don't get any better on the inside. Since many of these buildings have been closed for decades, can't we agree nothing will ever become of them? I would love to see a vibrant downtown Reno the people would like to visit. Aside from First Street, the rest of downtown is a bit of an embarrassment. Would love to read comments from other subscribers on what needs to be saved and what needs to go.
The expansion (2nd and Sierra) is owned by someone else and we weren't able to go inside that area.
VHS tapes!!!! Try to get a look at them.
That would be fun! But probably the same view for hours on end!
@@SteveTRYK true, but perhaps a look at the old casino floor.
I’ll say! The pending destruction of the Mapes, given how little of historic value Reno has, has kept me away from Reno. Just couldn’t see the point. Tahoe does gambling with better scenery and nobody does sheer tackiness better than Vegas.
Lots of history here - the angle of my channel is to bring more of it to light!
This was a great video until a Keshmiri got involved. I've been (and even worked) in many buildings touched by that name since 1994 and the places the brothers own/run are all subpar in their conditions, often taking advantage of the clientele in every aspect. They're also notorious for false advertising and cheating their way into various endeavors because of their "money talks, bullsh¡t walks" rhetoric. Mind you, Jami is much nicer and smarter than his brother but they both use their rich roots to disparage others who don't/didn't have the same nepotist luxuries they have.
Clarity: I love your videos but because of my lengthy history here, I'm going to call out some humans for their lack of humanity.
Reporpous
Imagine Comstock
Harold's Club😎😍😎😍
Too much competition from Vegas.
too much competition form California Indian Casinos... THEY ended Reno's monopoly hold on Bay Area gamblers.
Reno had more tourist traffic than Las Vegas up until I believe 1962.
@@printhog True. But Nevada/Reno had been trying to expand its economic viability for decades.
I remember a guy was inside the Mapes right before they blew it up.
Can't belive it's been 25 yrs
Time is flying!
I lived in Reno back in '99-'00, worked at Custom Glass when it was located across from the hospital on 2nd St...I was there when they tore down the Mapes, that was terrible to see, and from what I was told every room had a different theme in the Mapes" heyday...hey, can you still get an Awful-Awful at the Nugget?! That was the best hangover food I've ever had...and is Ryan's Saloon still in business? I'm a Clamper and that was the local watering hole for EVC members...anyway, I lived a block and a half up behind Jeremiah's Steakhouse, off of Plumb and Keitzke...I miss Reno and that time of my life, I was 26 when I had to move to Cleveland, Ohio, and soon after that some animals of the "religion of peace" flew planes into the WTC and Pentagon, which compelled me to enlist in USArmy and subsequently deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan...Great channel here, I'm subbed..🤘🏻🇺🇸
Hell yeah Wayne! The Nugget Diner is sadly gone - I could never finish the fries. Not sure about Ryans. Thank you for your sub and thank you for your service!!!